When people have something famous in their name, one tries to be circumspect from the point of view that they've heard it all a million times. But not everyone is over-versed in the history of pop culture, and venturing a small joke about someone's name, very carefully, under the proviso that they've heard it all a million times, may, instead of weariness, elicit confoundment on the part of the so named person.
And so it was with Jacob Dylan today when I was registering him for a library card. Granted, he was barely out of his teens, and also that these were merely a first and middle name. But when I mentioned, perhaps too sideways, that his first two names, "Jacob Dylan", were rather Wallflower type names, he took me to be suggesting that they didn't much stand out from the crowd.
I let the confusion stand, hoping that one day, perhaps decades from now, Jacob will hear "One Headlight" and have one of those moments.
"Who is this singer?" He might ask someone. And when they answer, he will fall silent and introspective for a moment, a far past minor mystery suddenly plugged in. And quietly he will say to himself, "Oh."
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